Hulu’s The Path Season 3: 3×01-3×03 Review

The Path, which has never been a great show, continues its streak of being just-kind-of-okay into and beyond its third season premiere. Culturally, it’s always been “that Scientology show with Aaron Paul on Netflix… or wait, Hulu… or is it…

Underseen on the Big Screen Episode 2: Shane Black

After a solid first episode, The Young Folks presents episode two of the movie podcast, Underseen on the Big Screen. Hosted by Tyler Christian, each episode dives into the overlooked realm of cinema, namely movies that didn’t fare well at the…

Movie Review: Sleepless

January, we meet again. The cornerstone of shelved projects and blatant mediocrity weighs its presence every year for movies that release throughout the aforementioned month. When you put the awards contender theater expansions aside, there’s rarely a “real” January movie that stands out as…

Movie Review: Patriots Day

Before we get started here, let’s get one thing out of the way that a lot of people may not quite understand when turning out to see this movie: When you move to the Greater Boston Area and live as…

Mark Wahlberg stars in Boston Marathon Bombing Film, Patriots Day

Mark Wahlberg has been very busy this year. We just saw him in Deepwater Horizon literally two seconds ago, and now he’s ready to give us a little more drama later this year. Earlier this week, the teaser trailer for…

TV Review: The Path Season 1

I don’t believe it’s a stretch to say we are a world, a collection of people who make up a collective society, obsessed with belonging; with finding “our people,” with being a part of something bigger than ourselves, with knowing…

Performances in 2014 That Were Overlooked or Underrated

Okay, so obviously the Oscars aren’t the end-all-be-all of cinema. A movie can be great without being an Oscar movie; a movie can be nominated for Best Picture and can subjectively be considered shit. Sometimes the Academy gets it right,…